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Goodreads star update
Mar. 5th, 2015 02:23 pmBirdsedge contacted Goodreads about the stars problem. It is a known glitch and has been fixed for now. More info at http://birdsedge.livejournal.com/297821.html
..a zero star review.
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birdsedge points out that if you don't put a star rating on a Goodreads review, Goodreads treats that as a zero star review when calculating the star average for the book, i.e. as low a rating as you can give, and not as an abstention.
Amongst other things, this means that if you don't give a star rating because as an author you feel uncomfortable doing that to other authors, or (as I sometimes do) because it was a book you didn't like but recognise as this being you and not the book, what you're inadvertently doing is rating the book as even lower than 1 star, even if you thought the book was worth 4 or 5 stars. On a book with few reviews, that can significantly affect the average rating.
birdsedge points out that if you don't put a star rating on a Goodreads review, Goodreads treats that as a zero star review when calculating the star average for the book, i.e. as low a rating as you can give, and not as an abstention.Amongst other things, this means that if you don't give a star rating because as an author you feel uncomfortable doing that to other authors, or (as I sometimes do) because it was a book you didn't like but recognise as this being you and not the book, what you're inadvertently doing is rating the book as even lower than 1 star, even if you thought the book was worth 4 or 5 stars. On a book with few reviews, that can significantly affect the average rating.
I (more or less) have a GoodReads account
Jul. 14th, 2012 08:25 amI set up a GoodReads account last month, mostly because it is apparently now a vital part of author marketing (and yes, I do mean "marketing of author", not just "marketing of author's books"). I then tried to import my LibraryThing catalogue, only to find that the server kept hanging. Since I was not going to manually re-enter 2,262 (and counting) records, I sent off a plea to the helpdesk.
Helpdesk asked me to send along my file. Apparently the problem was that the import server was not expecting 2,264 records (as it had become by then), and it had choked on my import file. Helpdesk got a large chunk in by breaking the file up into several smaller files, although I can tell by the count that a lot are still missing. At least now I know that it was the size of the file, and should be able to fix it.
My file - so big the server couldn't take it...
Helpdesk asked me to send along my file. Apparently the problem was that the import server was not expecting 2,264 records (as it had become by then), and it had choked on my import file. Helpdesk got a large chunk in by breaking the file up into several smaller files, although I can tell by the count that a lot are still missing. At least now I know that it was the size of the file, and should be able to fix it.
My file - so big the server couldn't take it...
